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Ok, maybe I need to clarify my statement. I have no problem with the FD arriving first. In a major emergency, yes, absoloutely send an ambulance at the same time. But to not send FD at all, when they may be closer, would be a mistake. Without knowing the details of the case in question, we cant...

I have a cheap chinese Leatherman (poor) imitation, some issued trauma shears, and some sterile scissors. None of it gets much use, but when you need them, you really need them.

Home - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes. I love me some music that sounds like the singers are having fun.

Hah, yeah I did think it was a bit odd. I was sitting top top of 3000 acres of world class terrain, and unless it was a powder day or summin, I really didnt care. My gear was run down, I had lost motivation, and I didnt care one bit. I havent skied since 2007, and I dont really miss it. I went...

When I first read your posts, the first thing I thought was 'he's cheating.' The cause may be a mid-life crisis, it may not, but the end result is the same. You feel horrible (to put it mildly), and trust is gone. What has happened was not your choice, but what you do from here on is. Take...

In the first few moments after a major trauma, a person first needs A, B, and C. What are the first things that are checked when you bring in any unstable patient? Airway, breathing, and circulation. Yes, they still need all manner of procedures that are far beyond the pre-hospital scope, but...

I was pro patrol for a few years, mainly in BC. I was hired on the back of being a ski instructor who was simply very keen to be a patroller. My first season I was a 'caddy', where I was basically pro patrol's :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:, I did everything they did except...

I don't see a major problem with sending FD first. If someone is majorly sick, especially from a trauma, most of the time they dont need advanced doodads and doohickeys, they need airway, breathing, and circulation. Which an EMT-B person should be able to do. On the big calls I go on, it's...

Dispatched to "17yr female, had weed, can't breathe." We got there, she told us she was afraid that it she went to sleep, she would forget to keep breathing. I told her she was in, what we in the trade call "The Green Room." Had a good chuckle after that one.

If the patient is being ventilated adequately with an OpA and a BVM, I don't see an immediate need for narcan, but I would probably still give it. I would most likely give 1mg IM, see what happens, give more if it has an effect. But I wouldn't give enough to wake him up, only enough to maintain...

Not necessarily. I have had a pt with GCS 3, took an OPA with no complaints, but gagged when the tube hit his cords.

Our service is converting from paper to ePCRs with iPads. It's a big service, however, and we have our IT guys writing custom software. Everyone is getting personal issue iPads, ours to use how we want.

So she created an infinite energy loop? Impressive!

Ah, roger that. My misunderstanding. We do have private companies, but I have no idea how they recruit or who through, we do all ours in house.

Umm, private? The link you posted is for a government run service. And the original links were to a not for profit charity that gets government funding to be the only public emergency responder in the state. We do have private companies, but these two ain't them.

Technically we don't have ICP, but we do have crit care medics on the helicopter, so sort of yes. There are only ten or so guys who rotate through the chopper, and it takes a long time to get there. You need to do a masters or postgrad in paramedicine to apply for that role. Our standard...

For us, a paramedic means a qualified person who has completed the degree and three years on road training, as we work full time from second year of uni onwards and study full time. Paramedics can intubate, cryc, do 12 leads (coming), chest decompression, bone gun, we have about thirty drugs...

I think it's a safe bet that we will still be recruiting then. It's been going on for a few years now, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. I'm not familiar with EMT-A, but we have paramedic and ambulance officer. Ambulance officer is simply paramedic in training. Paramedic scope is...

Ha, this is who I work for. The reason for international recruiting is that we are expanding massively at the moment, and are in short supply of paramedics. 15 years ago maybe 10 or 15 people would get trained every year. Now there are two groups of 100 rookies every year, plus however many get...

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